Improved



IINTTED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

EMMONS MANLEY, OF MARION, NEW YORK.

IMPROVED APPLE-iaanEFt.b

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 40,640, dated November 17, 1863.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EMMoNs MANLEY, of Marion, in the county of Wayne and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Apple-Petrer; and I'do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being' had to the accompanying drawin gs, makin g a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a front view of my invention; Fig. 2, a side view of the same; Fig. 3, a plan or top view ofthe same.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts in the several figures.

The object of this invention is to obtain an apple-parer in which no time will be lost by the removal of a pared apple from the fork and the placing of an unpared apple thereon; and also to obtain one which may, while in operation, work with a continuous movement, so that there will be no cessation of work while the machine is iu motion, as hereinafter fully shown and described.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it.

A represents the frame of the apple-parer, which is formed of a horizontal bar, ci, having an upright, b, at one end, and two uprights, c c, at the opposite end, the uprights c c being at the ends of a bar, d, which is secured at its center at right angles to the bar a, a proper distance being allowed between the two uprights c c. In the upper ends of the uprights c o there is fitted a horizontal bar, dx, which is secured in proper position by pins e e, and at each end of the bar d there are two uprights,f f, which serve as bearings for two shafts, B B, said shafts being parallel with each other and at right angles to the bar dx, as shown clearly in Fig. 3.

To one end of each shaft B there is attached a fork, G. These forks hold the apples while being pared, and on the opposite end of each shaft B there is a pinion, D. These piniors D gear into a spurwheel, E, which is on a shaft, F, the bearings of which are in uprights gg on the bar a, said uprights g g bein gat opposite sides of the bar d.

The bar a with its uprights b g g' may be of cast-iron and all cast in one piece togethir with a clamp-socket, h, which is at the end of the bar a, directly below the upright b.

and then in an opposite direction.

On the front end of the shaft F, on which the spur-wheel E is placed, there is secured a bevel-pinion, E', which gears into a bevelwheel, H, the shaft z' of which is attached vertically to the bar c, as shown in Fig. 2. On this bevel-wheel H, at a suitable distance from its center or shaft t, there is an upright, j, on which a friction-roller, 7c, is fitted and allowed to turn freely, and at one side of said upright j there is a lug, l, the upper surface of which is beveled or inclined, as shown in Fig. 2.

I is a shaft, the bearings of which are in the uprights b gof the bar a. This shaft Inlay be termed a rock-shaft,77 as itdoes not revolve, but turns at intervals first :in one direction To one end of theshaft I there is attached a pendant, J, the lower end of which. is connected by a screw-rod, K, with the upper end of a rod, L,

the lower end being connected by a joint, in,

with the upper part'oftheclamp-socket h. On the rod L there is placed a spiral spring, M, the upper end of which bears against the screw-rod K, the latter being fitted loosely on the rod L. un the shaft I, at the end opposite to that where the pendant J vis attached, there is secured an upright bar, N, which works in a notch, a, made in a projection, o, on the bar d of the upright c @,as shown in Fig. 3.

O is a sliding plate, which is tted on the shaft I, said plate having guides a a to receive the shaft I, and also having' bars p p, which are screwed or bolted to it over the shaft and guides. This plate O has four pendants, q g q gf, at its under side, which eX- tend 4down two at each side of the shaft I.

To the shaft I there is permanently secured at right angles a bar, P, having arack, Q, at eich end of it. This bar P is directly over the sliding plate O, and the ends of the latter, as well as the two racks Q Q of the bar IP, are somewhat inclined or have an angular position relatively with the bar Q and central portion of the plate 0, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. At each end of the plate O there is attached by a pivot, r, a segmentrack, R, and these racks It gear into the racks Q Q at the ends of the bar P, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. The segment-racks R are formed at the inner ends of plates S, the outer ends of the latter having recesses made in them to receive the lower vconstructed in the usual or in any proper way. y

Through the bars T screws bx pass, which serve as stops for said bars, and determine or limit the inward movement of the bars T, the inner ends of the screws bx bearing against nuts on the upper ends of the pivots fr.

The operation is as follows: The frame of the machine is secured to a table or any proper support by means of a clamp, of which his the socket, and the operator turns the spur-wheel E in the'direction indicated by the arrow l, motion being communicated from the wheel E to the shafts B B through the medium of the pinions D D, and a rotary motion thereby given the forks C C an d the apples upon them. A rotary motion is also communicated to the bevel-wheel H from the shaft F of wheel E through the medium of the bevel-pinion E',

and as the wheel H rotates the friction-roller lo passes alternately beneath the pendants q q and q q, and gives a reciprocating movement to the plate O, moving it forward and backward on the shaft I, and at the terminashaft I, and said spring also serves to retain the shaft and plate in nposition after being tilted. This movement forward and backward of the plate O, in connection with its tilting movement, effect two important re-4 sults-to wit: They cause the knives U to be brought alternately within working distance of the forks C, and cause the krives to be moved in the path of a semi-circle around the forks, the latter movement being given the knives from the plate O through the medium of the stationary racks Q of the bar'P and the segmen tracks R of the plates S. The apple is pared by the knife which is at the elevated end of the'plate O, and one knife pares the apple in its movement from the inner to the outer end of the fork, the other knife paring the apple during its movement from the outer to the inner end of the fork. While one apple is being pared, the apple on the other fork, which was pared during the previous movement of plate 0, is removed and an unpared one adjusted in its place. Thus the device while in operation is kept continually v at work, there being no loss of time in taking the pared apples from the machine and adjusting the unpared apples thereto. At each tilting movement of the plate O and shaft I, the bar d is shifted by the bar N, and the pinion D of the inoperative shaft B thrown out of gear from the wheel E, while the other pinion D is thrown in gear with wheel E.

The whole arrangement is simple and edicient, and operates practically well.

I would remark that slicing-knives for slicing apples may be attached to thebars T, when slicing is required to be done.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure oy Letters Patent, is-

1. The sliding plate O, placed on the tilting or rock shaft l, the racks Q Q on bar l), thc segment-racks It on the plates S, which have the knife-bars T attached to them, in combination with the two rotating forks C C, all

arranged substantially as and for the purpose herein set forth.

2. Giving the reciprocation motion to thc plate O, by means of the bevel-wheel H, ro tated from the shaft F through the medium of the bevel-pinion E', the friction-roller k on wheel H, and the pendants q q q q" ofplatc O, arranged substantially as described. 3. Tilting the plate O and shaftV I through the medium of the lug l on the wheel H., the long pendants q q on plate O, and the spring M on the rod L, the latter being connected to shaft I by the rod K, and pendant J, as sct forth.`

4. The shifting bar d* with the fork-shafts B B, attached and operated from the tilting or rock shaft I throughvthe medium of the bar N, fitted in the notch u in the projection O of bar dx, as set forth.

' EMMONS MANLEY. Witnesses:

G. G. HUGGINs, C. H. CURTIS. 

